I have lately been having some memory and CPU issues with init process. After rebooting, the memory used by it keeps increasing at quite high pace, and after half hour it occupies all the memory RAM ...

How can I disable a notebooks built-in keyboard - before the login screen.
I have a non functioning built-in keyboard on my notebook. In it's current state it types characters randomly. I am using an ...

Until today I used 12.04. This afternoon I ugraded to 12.10 then 13.04 and finally to 13.10 .
Everything seemed normal during the updates. Afterwards on 13.10 I kept getting an error message related ...

I am trying set up a virtual machine as an exercise for my friend, it came to my mind that I can give him a machine that reboots all the time and ask him to find out whats wrong with it. I change run ...

I know this question has been asked several times on this forum, but none of the answers given worked for me.
Tonight I did an install of Ubuntu 13.04 on a brand new Acer Aspire laptop. I formatted ...

I'm using Upstart 1.5 in Ubuntu 12.04 to manage a process created by some user but needs to be managed as system job as starting on boot, respawning if it fails and we been able to start/stop it at ...

I would like to know what program is responsible for writing messages to the console during the start, logout and shutdown process. What I'm referring to is that black console that comes out and spews ...

In short: Please provide me with a up-to-date best practice solution to mount my Truecrypt volumes at boot with secure password prompt! I may accept a answer that has nothing to do with Truecrypt and ...

So I've scanned through all the wiki's and posts to no avail. I'm attempting to set up e4rat on Ubuntu 12.10, and after appending init=/sbin/e4rat-collect to Grub and changing ro to rw startup.log is ...

Is it possible to redirect, ie create /dev/null as non-null device, like /dev/console or /dev/stdout? This obviously has to be done before init runs create creates a standard /dev/null. Upstart seems ...